Word: obi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hapless wife had not only to keep house, bear children and submit to her mother-in-law's tyranny, but also try desperately to hold her husband against the competition of "pillow" geishas, concubines and casual prostitutes. The tea ceremony, the fan, the kimono, flower arranging, the obi, the intricate hairdo, the beautifully mannered deference-all became subtle weapons of allurement. The kimono was cunningly cut to reveal the nape of the neck, a feature that to Japanese men seems more erotic than bosom or thigh...
When she opened in Manhattan last week, a pressagent told Toshiko that she should wear a kimono all the time because she was, after all, the only female jazz pianist from Japan. As a concession, she wears a kimono on Saturday nights (the obi is apt to be too tight for really freewheeling playing, she complains), but the rest of the time she performs in Western cocktail dresses. Behind the piano at the Hickory House, across the way from West 52nd Street's sagging strip joints, Toshiko Akiyoshi demonstrates that she need not rely on costume for her success...
...verse: groups of words listed by their last letters. The a's, for instance, run from ba (the soul of man in ancient Egypt) to zamia (a cycadaceous plant). The i's have such useful quickies as ai (a three-toed sloth), li (Chinese unit of measure), obi (a Japanese sash worn with a kimono) and tui (a parson bird...
JOSEPH ENUENWEMBA OBI McPherson College McPherson, Kans...
...Chamber of Commerce to look into the barbershop situation. (But the boys were still going 35 miles away to Hutchinson to get their hair cut.) The high school is planning to send its social science students out into the community to check up on race relations. And Joe Obi, who once fled from the hostile restaurant kitchen, finds he can eat in any restaurant, and says he isn't afraid any more...